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Paula Radcliffe

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I have always loved running on the roads, ever since I used to take part in relays for my club when I was 12 and 13. I felt really at home on the surface.


— Paula Radcliffe


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I have always run as hard as I can. You are not going to run any harder with or without men. You are running on your own two feet.


— Paula Radcliffe


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I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.


— Paula Radcliffe


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I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.


— Paula Radcliffe


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I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.


— Paula Radcliffe


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I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.


— Paula Radcliffe


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I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.


— Paula Radcliffe


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I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.


— Paula Radcliffe


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I try not to worry about things that I can't control.


— Paula Radcliffe


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I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.


— Paula Radcliffe


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Did you know about Paula Radcliffe?

As of November 2009 Paula Radcliffe holds the official world record for 10 km on roads. Early life
Radcliffe was born on 17 December 1973 in Davenham near Northwich Cheshire. She has twice won the World Half-Marathon championships twice the World Cross-Country championships (in 2001 and 2002) and in December 2003 became European Cross-Country champion for the second time the only woman to have achieved this feat in the event's ten-year history.

She has also been nominated for World Sportswoman of the year on several occasions. She has represented Great Britain at the Olympics four times consecutively (1996 to 2008) but has not won a medal on the Olympic stage. Radcliffe is a former world champion in the marathon half marathon and cross country.

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